How to install all of Windows XP on a flash drive

[Eric Legge]

An ideal way of recovering Windows XP would be if you could run a complete copy of it from a USB flash drive. The following free tutorial tells you how to do it.

"WinUSB is a tutorial which allows the user to run a complete Windows XP version on an USB device/stick. This tutorial is some kind of manual which you have to follow, in order to let your modified Windows XP run on your USB device. Therefor you have to regard some requirerments which are also important to the avoidance of any infringment of the copyright of microsoft. You only have to click on the tutorial menu-button in order to read more...

"Copyright advice: "The following tutorial requires a valid licenced copy of Windows XP. Microsoft does not authorize the owners of Windows XP licences to run the licensed Windows version on more than one computer at a time. The registration of Windows XP also prevents running Windows XP on multiple systems. Due to that, you are allowed to use your licenced copy of Windows XP on only one computer. That does not prevent the use of WinUSB on another computer after shutting down the first system."

- http://www.winusb.de/index_en.html

[Servo888]

It's a REALLY bad idea to install Windows on a flash drive. This is because a flash drive will only last 'up to' 100,000 writes, meaning you'll kill your flash drive in a matter of a few weeks. So you would want to use a harddrive based usb storage device instead...

[dajogejr]

Sorry...eric, almost seems like a waste of a large flash drive to me.
Many older systems won't boot off a USB anyways.

I'd rather carry a CD or too, with BartPE, etc., and portable firefox instead...
I'd bet you can get Knoppix or another smaller footprint Linux ISO on a USB drive...